Okay, maybe the title is a little misleading. It’s not like I’m a professor or anything.
I did get to give a lecture, though. Let me tell you about it…
Jimmy Lim, a grad student who helps lead worship for Chi Alpha @ Stanford is taking a class called Voluntary Social Systems. The class basically seeks to describe a maximally free society, one in which all laws flow from the maxim that “peaceful, honest people have a right to be left alone.”
Anyway, each student who is taking the class for full credit is required to bring in an outside speaker, and Jimmy chose me!
It was really an astounding opportunity–I was able to talk about “Religion and the Maxim Society” to a group of mostly unbelieving grad students. In fact, I think the bulk of the students were atheists.
In case you’re wondering, the lecture went really well (at least, that’s my take on things). They applauded when I was done and we had a wonderful time of question and answer. I was able to talk very forthrightly about my faith in God, the centrality of religion to human experience, and to present the gospel in a highly contextualized manner.
Woohoo!
Please pray that these students (and the professor, Ron Howard) would become sensitive to God’s presence in their lives. Pray also that Jimmy and Lynn (the other Chi Alpha student in the class) would have opportunities to talk with their classmates about spiritual things.
Also, please pray for more cool opportunities to share the gospel at Stanford!
In case you’re curious, a complete set of notes from my presentation is available. I warn you–unless you have a background in libertarian or objectivist political thought it may seem kind of weird. Trust me–it made sense to my target audience.